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Anti-missionary riots in China

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Starting with the arrival in China of the Jesuit China missions in 1552, the number of Western missionaries increased gradually. The Treaty of Tientsin in 1858 gave the Christians free run in the country and the right to purchase land to build. The Western missionaries saw themselves as the godsent preachers while Chinese saw them as the barbarians (Chinese: ), the extension of foreign invasion, shielded by treaties and backed by their governments' gunboats. Anti missionary riots became part of the landscape, culminating in the Boxer Rebellion in 1900.[1][2][3]

List of anti-missionary riots

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Ruins of a Canadian Methodist missionary George Everson Hartwell's house after the 1895 anti-missionary riots in Chengdu, Sichuan.

References

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  1. ^ Cohen, Paul A. China and Christianity. Cambridge: Harvard Press, 1963. ISBN 0674283627. p58
  2. ^ Latourette, K.S. (1932). A History of Christian Missions in China. New York: The Macmillan Co. OCLC 1494316. p359
  3. ^ Paul A. Varg, Missionaries, Chinese and Diplomats (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1958). Page 31
  4. ^ Pitcher, Ph.W. Fifty years in Amoy or, a history of the Amoy Mission, China. Рипол Классик. p. 36. ISBN 978-5-87149-819-4.